ECE Professor Santiago Grijalva has been named to the Federal Smart Grid Advisory Committee of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for a three-year term.
ECE Professor Ian F. Akyildiz has been named as the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks (TCCN) Recognition Award.
If your student wants to apply what they are learning in the classroom in an active setting to gain practical experience, then they should look into doing undergraduate research.